A Stochastic Car Following Model

A Car Following Model for Motorway Traffic

This paper presents a new car-following model which aims to capture some of the key motorway flow characteristics, namely traffic breakdown, hysteresis, shockwave propagation as well as close-following behaviour. The model proposes three different driving states: non-alert, alert and close-following. Under the different driving states, drivers apply different reaction time and acceleration. Thi...

Understanding Driver Car-Following Behavior Using a Fuzzy Logic Car-Following Model

Stochastic Mixture Modeling of Driving Behavior During Car Following

This paper presents a stochastic driver behavior modeling framework which takes into account both individual and general driving characteristics as one aggregate model. Patterns of individual driving styles are modeled using a Dirichlet process mixture model, as a non-parametric Bayesian approach which automatically selects the optimal number of model components to fit sparse observations of ea...

Evaluation of a car-following model using systems dynamics

Models that describe the processes by which drivers follow each other in the traffic stream are generally referred to as car-following models. During the past 50 years, driver behavior within the traffic stream has been studied and models that attempt to describe this behavior have been proposed. Car-following models have frequently been developed for the purpose of incorporation with microscop...

Full velocity difference model for a car-following theory.

In this paper, we present a full velocity difference model for a car-following theory based on the previous models in the literature. To our knowledge, the model is an improvement over the previous ones theoretically, because it considers more aspects in car-following process than others. This point is verified by numerical simulation. Then we investigate the property of the model using both an...